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Old 02-10-2009, 10:07 AM  
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Children's books and Crime
I've spent a good number of hours reading to my kids over the past 3 years. Many of the books I'm reading, often nightly are the same stories I heard when I was young. My favorite as a little boy was "the jolly barnyard", the story of animals planning a party for farmer brown's birthday.


Anyway, I've had an epiphany while reading recently. Most of these books and stories...read any of the little golden books, contain crime.

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The 3 Bears.
Goldilocks is walking in the woods, sees a house, knocks on the door. No one answers, so she decides to go in. Breaking and Entering. She sits in the chairs, breaks the wee little chair to bits...destruction of property. She eats baby bear's food.....burglary. I'm sure in today's environment, being found sleeping in a child's bed as she was in baby bear's bed would lead to a sex offender list.

Don't even get me started on the 3 little pigs. Its got strong arm robbery, destruction of property, breaking and entering, premeditated murder....but also brings up a social issue of using deadly force to defend your home.


So. Your challenge is to give the cliff notes of a children's book or fable, and list as many crimes committed in that story as you can.
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Old 02-11-2009, 07:23 AM   #31
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Tell me, which part of this story is a good lesson for our children?
The kids got away with it?
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Old 02-11-2009, 09:54 AM   #32
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Old 02-11-2009, 09:58 AM   #33
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Goodnight Moon had to be a drug induced auther.
this was the one I was trying to dissect and thought...nope, no crime in this one...

Where the Wild Things Are: not much crime in that one either, right? Or am I remembering it wrong?
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The Sandra Boynton books are goofy as hell, but I can't find much in them that would make a good "murder she wrote" episode.


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Old 02-11-2009, 01:03 PM   #36
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Don't even get me started on "the pokey Puppy". They dig under the fence, destroying property, they're out past curfew, tell lies, and steal food.
Yet the pokey little puppy gets over -- twice he gets dessert all to himself, and only once is he caught or punished. In fact, the message I get out of it is, "If you're lazy, you'll wind benefiting from it two out of three times!"

Other than that, The Boy reads a lot of books centered on the movie Cars, (which contains excessive speeding, reckless driving, false imprisonment, trespassing and harassment) or the Backyardigans (who do lots of jobs in violation of child labor laws).

The others have already been mentioned (Cat in the Hat, etc.)

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